Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

- Holz, Julie

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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